On view in paris until July 24

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PARIS – Les Dogons et Marcel Griaule : le mariage semble indissoluble entre l’ethnie qui habite la falaise de Bandiagara au Mali et le célèbre ethnologue, chef de file de la mission Dakar-Djibouti des années trente. L’exposition présente les objets emblématiques – montrés depuis longtemps chez les antiquaires européens - dont les fameux masques que Griaule classifia dans son ouvrage de 1938. Parmi les quelque 300 objets disposés pour mener jusqu’au chef-d’œuvre du musée du quai Branly (la grande statue djennenké), se trouvent des sculptures, des piliers de cases, des portes de greniers, des serrures, des appuie-tête. La commissaire Hélène Leloup, qui fréquente les Dogons depuis plus de 50 ans (elle a ouvert sa première galerie en 1956) prend comme clé de décryptage la fascination des Occidentaux pour la culture dogon, qui a d’abord marqué les ethnologues pour se diffuser largement : aujourd’hui, parmi les artistes qui y puisent leur inspiration, figure notamment Miquel Barceló.
• Dogon au musée du quai Branly, du 5 avril au 24 juillet 2011.

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